Programs that pat themselves on the back
Posted by Johnnie
Much as love Linux – and god knows I do love ‘er, fickle and high-maintenance mistress that she is – there are a few things that irritate and annoy me. Some of them are big things and some of them are small things. The thing that annoys me most of all, though, more than anything else in the Free & Open Source software world, is the noise that K3B plays when it’s finished burning a disk. It’s a little fanfare of smugness. It’s a sound that all but demands a round of applause and a short speech to commemorate the fact that K3B has managed to accomplish the sole task for which it was designed, without – for example – setting my house on fire or pissing on my cat. It’s as bad as using Windows, where if I don’t want to sit through the ten-minute masturbation session that is the Windows XP New Features Tour, the operating system gets mildly indignant and goes off into the system tray for a sulk.
I know it’s open source, so I can just hack it myself and solve my own problem, but it shouldn’t be there in the first place. It’s stupid, and most un-FOSS-like.